在这部没有男人的女人片中,女儿安娜的葬礼结束后，阿曼多在一通简短的电话中宣布他回来了。安娜的母亲艾瑞斯说服索菲亚和她以及嫂子克拉拉一起在别墅里等待一名男子，但她没有意识到索菲亚是安娜的女朋友。第二天，莱蒂齐亚和达里奥来到别墅——莱蒂齐亚是阿曼多的前妻，达里奥是阿曼多的长子。日子一天天过去，但阿曼多一直没有来——等待变得令人不安——别墅变成了监狱，里面的人觉得自己快要崩溃了，但他们仍然在等待阿曼多。索菲亚是第一个试图逃跑的人，当她试图接受安娜的死和她财产似乎消失的事实时，她对阿曼多的贬低已经到了崩溃的边缘，她在故事的最后转折中做出了一个深刻的决定。
After the funeral of his daughter, Anna, Armando announces his return in a brief phone call. Iris, the mother of Anna, convinces Sofia to wait for a man at a villa with her and her sister-in-law Clara, but doesn't realizzato that Sofia was Anna's girlfriend. The following day, Letizia and Dario arrive at the villa - Letizia is the ex-wife of Armando, Dario is Armando's eldest son. The days pass but Armando never arrives - The wait becomes disconcerting - the villa becomes a prison, the people inside feel like they might crumble but they still wait for Armando. Sofia is the first to try to escape, and while she tries to come to terms with the death of Anna and the apparent vanishing of her possessions, her dispraising of Armando grows to breaking point and she makes a deep decision in the final twist of the story.
